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Project Blue for Famicom launches on Kickstarter

Out of the blue
by rawmeatcowboy
24 June 2020
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Project Blue is a brand-new 8bit Action-Platformer for the Famicom/NES, created as a team-effort by the talented ToggleSwitch, FrankenGraphics & M-Tee.

The game's base gameplay is heavily inspired by classics like Megaman and Super Mario Bros. 3, but mixes things up with a unique dystopian setting and creative level design with lots of unique challenges and multiple game modes to tackle.

The project was successfully funded and realized as a NES-compatible cartridge release through Kickstarter in 2019. For this year, the developers have teamed up with First Press Games to bring Project Blue to the Japanese sister-system of the NES, the Famicom.

Aside of making it available for the different hardware, the goal is also to create a thoroughly localized packaging, manual and even implement translated in-game text to make it a truly fleshed-out release for the console.

This Kickstarter aims to fund part of the production for the Famicom version, which will be quite expensive due to many involved custom parts.

While new NES releases are a common feat nowadays, well-made Famicom games are very hard to find on the retrogame aftermarket. First Press Games wants to change that and tackle it the same way as they did with Tobu Tobu Girl Deluxe:

Custom-manufactured cartridge shells, newly-assembled PCBs and self-developed, authentic packaging to give the whole product a proper edge over anything you have ever seen before!

Make sure to follow the Kickstarter updates closely, a lot of exciting details and behind-the scenes content will unleash during the course of the campaign.

Check out the Kickstarter here

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